Brian Tracy Quotes

Attitude/Possibility/thinking

Make a game of finding something positive in every situation.Ninety-five percent of your
emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

Dream big dreams!Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before
you decide what's possible.

Attitude and personality are as important as experienced and ability.Choose wisely.

Your attitude is an expression of your values,beliefs and expectations.

If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you,
what would you do differently or change in your life?

Belief/Desire/Decision

Whatever you believe with emotions becomes your reality.you always act in a manner
consistent with your intermost beliefs and convictions.

Think before you act and then act decisevely.Fortune favors the brave.

I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point.
The turning point was when they made a clear,specific unequivocal decision that they
were not going to live like this anymore;they were going to achieve success.Some
people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50,and most people never
make it all.

Every great leap forward in your life comes after you have made a clear
decision of some kind.

Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten
percent of your field. that payoff is incredible!

Character/Integrity/Honesty

Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for.Refuse to compromise.

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

Truthfulness is the main element of character.

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself;intellectual honesty and personal
courage are the hallmarks of great character.

Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion
with which it was made has passed.
Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.

Competence/Excellence

The future belongs to the competent.It belongs to those who are very,very good at
what they do.It does not belong to the well meaning.

People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by
practcing it until they become proficient at it.

Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatnessin life is only
possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence,mastery
of your work.

One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competencein your key
result areas.

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes
for average performance.

Customer Service

Everyone is in the business of customer satisfaction.Who are your customers
and how are they doing?

The purpose of a bussines is to create and keep a customer .All business
activities must be focused on this central purpose.

You keep customers by delivering on your promises,fulfilling your commitments
and continually investing in the quality of your relationships.

If your job is customer satisfaction , your real job title is Problem-Solver.

Offer your customer a long term relationships,then do everything possible
to build and maintain it.

Express your admiration for the traits,possessions or accomplishments of
your customer.Little things mean a lot.

Financial Independence

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made.That is,they started
with nothing but ambition and energy,the same way most of us start.

Make a decision to be succesful right now.Most people never decide to be wealthy
and that is why they retire poor.

Money is hard to earn and easy to lose.Guard yours with care.

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial
cushion in times of recession.

Those who start with too litte money are more likely to succeed than those
who start with too much.Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth
creation.

Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings,
insurance and investments.

Giving/Asking

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask."

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

Develop an "attitude of gratitude."Say thank you to everyone you meet
for everything they do for you.

Ask for what you want.Ask for help,ask for input,ask for advice and ideas-
but be afraid to ask.

Develop a benovolent world view;look for the good in the people
and circumstances around you.

Goals/Goal Achievement

An average person with average talent,ambition and education, can outstrip
the most brilliant genius in our society,if that person has clear,focused goals.

The establishment of a clear,central purpose or goal in life is the starting point
of all success.

Goals in writting are dreams with deadlines.

Commiting your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving
them by one thousand percent!

Success equals goals;all else is commentary.

Rewrite your major goals every day,in the present tense, exactly as if they
already existed.

Happiness/Self-fulfillment

Set peace of mind as your highest goal and organize your entire life around it .

Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your
life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions.

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The Kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy,
joyous person.

The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment.How you
feel is determined by how you interpret what is happening around you,not by the
the events themselves.

Happiness comes when you believe in whatyou are doing,know whatyou are doing,
and love what you are doing.

Influence/Mentors

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area
and then you did the same thing over and over,you'd eventually get the same
resultthey do.

Get around the right people.Associate with positive,goal-oriented people who
encourage and inspire you.

Be selective about your external influences.your multi-dimensional brain is influenced
by everything you see,hear,read,smell,touch,feel or say.

Avoid negative people at all costs.They are the greatest destroyers of self confidence
and self-esteem.

Knowledge/Education

The great Breakthrough in your life comes when you realize it that you can learn anything
you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself.This means there are
no limits on what you can be,have or do.

Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved
from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.